Mop



- Mare-h 1o. 1925.. R'. POLLARD MOP,

' 'Filed Nov? so. 192s NVENTQR ffm/MM PMM/m .ATTRNEY lil aten'ted Mar. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REGNALD POLLARD, O'F WOOLLAHRA, NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES,

AUSTRALIA.

MOP.

Application filed November 30, 1923. Serial No. 677,607.

To @ZZ whom it may concern Be it known that l, REGINALD POLLARD, of Shanlrlim Bundarra Road, lvVoollahra, near Sydney, county of Cumberland, in the State of New South Wales, Australia, have invented new and useful mprovements in Mops, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to mops for washing and cleaning floors, walls, and other surfaces, and it consists in a mop head constituted of a looped collapsible bag of thick spongy cotton fabricsuch as Dorset scourer clotlW-or like absorbent material terminally carried on the end of a rod handle and on a collar respectively, said collar being slidable on the handle. A similarly looped assembly of roped strings of soft absorbent cotton may be used in substitution for the fabric bag.

rl`he object of the invention is to facilitate the rinsing and wringing of mops to cleanse them, and to obtain a more effective swabbing head than is offered by the usual loose tuft structure in which only one end of each tuft is fixed to the handle.

A mop constructed according to the present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which z- Fig. l is a half sectional elevational View, with the mop head spread for use; and

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the mop head collapsed-stretched lengthwise-and twisted as in the operation of wringing.

The handle or shaft of the mop is a cylindrical rod A, and the head of the mop is constituted of a looped tubular bag of spongy cotton fabric, material of the kind commercially known .as Dorset scourer cloth or of a looped assembly of loosely twisted cords or ropes of cotton waste, or like absorbent material, preferably cross laced or woven to hold it symmetrically. The bag or assembly of cotton ropes is first bunched at one end closely around the lower end of the handle A and bound upon it by copper or brass wires B, or, when it is desired to facilitate removal of the head from the handle, by means of a draw string or tape running through a hem. At the other end it is similarly bound, and secured as for instance by a clamping band C on a collar D.

The collar D forms a. handpiece and is slidable along the handle A. `When the mop head is drawn up and stretched along the handle, it may be twisted to wring it (see F ig. 2) by rotating the collar D more or less. When the collar D is freed it falls by gravity, allowing the head material to fall into the looped free radially spread position for use as shown in Fig. 1.

To give'the mop head suflicient mass, the tube of fabric of which it is constructed is folded or looped on itself to form an interior heavy tuck E; this tuch insets in the fold of the outer' part of the material when the collar D is down, as shown in Fig. rl.

A mop head thus constructed is Very eilicient and facility is offered for stretching it along the vhandle and twisting it to wring it without necessitating the user touching the fabric and soiling the hands.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent:-'

A combined mop and wringer consisting of a mop handle, a collar freely slidable on said handle, a tubular head of absorbent fibrous material folded on itself to form a tuck within its lower portion, one end of said tubularv head being gathered around and secured to the shaft end of said handle by wiring, the other end of said tubular head being gathered around and secured to said collar by a clamping band.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

RGINALD PoLLARn. 

